Im on day 18 and have questions

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Ok I have 3 peafowl eggs 8 silkies and about 10 mutt eggs that are brown.

The peafowls are due the 26th and the others are due the 24th.

I candled just a min ago and saw movement in a few of them and veins and what I think were little feathers.

The humidity in the bator has been around 30 - 40%
Can I leave it at this?

Im going camping tomorrow and wont return till the 25th so Im *hoping* everything will go ok.

The peafowl eggs I dont see any veins but they have large airsacs and dark masses. Except one. It has a small mass and no veins but does not smell..

How bad can things go in the next few days?
 
If they're on day 18 you need to up your humidity to about 65% so they won't get stuck in the shells. If you won't be around all types of things could go wrong...power out, temp spikes, etc. Temp sometimes spikes when they start to hatch, so you should leave it set at the low end...99 or so.
 
Its been at a steady 99-100 the whole time, cept one spike to 103 and of corse the 1 night I leave we get a power outage
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But that was days ago..

I have tried everything to bring the humidity up..
Well filling up the holders and using a sponge.

Its an LG and I have both plugs out..
I fear a little that if I put a plug in now during the night the temps will sore!
 

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